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Cheers BLUE.

They could also equalise the % tax take for earned and unearned income.

At the moment earned or the mostly working class pay are taxed at a much higher % tax take.

We saw this when both leaders revealed their tax statements.

Sunak's was 22% while Starmer's was much much higher (around 40%)

and Sunak's total income was much higher ....several millions

It's all online.

With the terrible dire state of our public services it was blindingly obvious that tax rises would be needed.

Both parties denied this and are equally guilty.

Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urs8nHOjvKQ

ThIs is a REFORM loving YOUTUBE website.

Farage would replace our NHS with Insurance based private health care......like in Yankee land.

Surprise surprise.

Telegraph requested and paid for this poll.

Paul’s opinion - I think there’s lots to like here, having spent most of the morning going through it all. The IMC webinar today was really informative, so I urge you to look at the recording once it’s up (probably tomorrow). It was only 30 minutes, but gave an excellent overview of the group, and its performance, and some Q&A too. I took notes, and always write a conclusion about my view of mgt, and what to do with my holding. In this case I’ve noted down: CEO & CFO both good, and buy more! Obviously as always just my personal view, not a recommendation, as we do our own research here, and take responsibility for our own portfolios.

I cannot see why the market is only giving this decent quality business, making improving margins, with a bulletproof almost debt-free balance sheet, a 2025 PER of only 8.8x? It just seems the wrong price. Maybe there are worries about sustainability of higher profits, or dollar strength, and the cyclical nature of the oil/gas markets which produce over 90% of Hunting’s revenues? For me that is offset by the specialist & innovative nature of HTG’s products, eg N.Sea contracts announced today are really interesting, where HTG has spent several years developing a specialist method of extending the life of oil wells, and efficiently extracting the remaining resources from older oil wells. HTG has over 500 patents protecting its tech, hence the decent & improving margins. That sounds lucrative. It’s now started winning some decent sized contracts oil recovery, eg $60m over 5 years announced separately today. That could have obvious growth potential. Similar things were said about other divisions, where HTG also has proprietary, and high margin products & services.

This looks very good I think, and cheap, so it’s a shiny bright GREEN from me. Bear in mind I hold personally, and want to buy more when funds are available, so I am clearly biased. Or to put it more accurately, I think it’s really good, so have backed my view with my own money.

Stockopedia likes it too, so it gets approval from man & machine. Nice looking chart too.

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As the CEO pointed out today, last time revenue & profit was at the 2025 expected level, the share price was double the current level. There hasn't been any dilution either. All of which reinforces my view that this share maybe has medium term potential to recover further to possibly 600-800p in due course? Who knows though, anything can happen with shares, as you know!

https://app.stockopedia.com/content/small-cap-value-report-thu-29-aug-2024-placeholder-1006459?order=createdAt&sort=desc&mode=threaded

SUBSCRIPTION ONLY hence printout

The Yanks turned down SHIEN's request for a stock listing there so they are trying here.

A think tank has blamed "woeful budgeting" at the Home Office for repeated overspending on asylum support.

Over the last three years, the department's initial estimated budgets for asylum, border, visa and passport operations amounted to £320m.

But the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said it had ended up spending £7.9bn over the period, £7.6bn more than forecast.

The IFS also warned the department had submitted figures it "knows to be insufficient" for this year.

BEEB

MUSK unhappy ...lo!

Free speech unchained.....and all that......let the crime flourish on-line

Looks like a substantial shareholder revolt at the Kinovo AGM yesterday. I wonder what lay behind that. Auditors sacked and management incentives binned. Ouch!

425p live

strong recovery atm

Aug 29 (Reuters) - British energy services firm Hunting (LON:HTG) posted a 23% jump in its first-half profit on Thursday, buoyed by a strong order book across its oil and subsea portfolios.

The firm reported a core profit of $60.3 million for the six months ended June 30, up from $49.1 million logged last year.

Shares down today presumably due to concerns about govt tax threats. Plus strong £ not helping I guess.

*RBC RAISES HUNTING PRICE TARGET TO 500 (450) PENCE - 'OUTPERFORM'

CEO has died suddenly. He was instrumental in the growth of the business with 35 years' relevant experience.

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On September 25, 2000, 19-year-old Kevin Hines attempted to take his own life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.

He plummeted over 220 feet at 75 miles per hour, crashing into the water and severely damaging three of his vertebrae, narrowly avoiding a complete spinal cord injury by mere millimeters.

Remarkably, he survived this harrowing fall. In the aftermath of his plunge, Kevin found himself fighting for his life.

His wet clothes weighed him down, dragging him under the chilly waters of San Francisco Bay. He struggled to break the surface, gasping for breath, clinging to his newfound desire to live.

Suddenly, he felt an unusual force from below lifting him above the water's surface, where he remained until the Coast Guard arrived.

It was only later that he discovered the mysterious presence keeping him afloat: a sea lion had been supporting his body until the rescue boat arrived, as eyewitnesses had observed.

This extraordinary survival story captured widespread media attention. Kevin Hines has since dedicated himself to being a motivational speaker and a fervent advocate for suicide prevention.

Well overdue...

Helium shares all seem to move in concert.

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F-15's in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttCJTHRmejo

I couldn't resist it.

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2022-04-14/cornwall-set-to-get-less-than-half-of-its-replacement-eu-funding

With Sky News reporting prisons only have room for 100 more male prisoners it’s worth remembering that one month before the general election was called the body representing 95% of prison governors in England & Wales were warning jails would run out of space within days putting the public at risk. What we are now seeing is the result of fourteen years of neglect, inaction and underfunding by successive Conservative governments